Azure updates

We're retiring Memory Optimized Data Flows in Azure Data Factory - use General Purpose for better performance at a lower price.

Target retirement date: April 01, 2027

We're retiring Memory Optimized Data Flows in Azure Data Factory

• Retirements

Public Preview: In-Account restore for continuous backup accounts

Customers can restore the deleted database and containers in the same continuous backup account.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public Preview: Change data capture for Azure Cosmos DB analytical store

Build CDC data flows from Azure Cosmos DB analytical store, at no RUs cost, with Azure Synapse Analytics or Azure Data Factory.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features

Azure Machine Learning Announcements – January 2022 General Availability Announcement

New features now available in General Availability include add multiple private endpoints for workspaces, and support for storage account IP firewall.

• Azure Machine Learning
• Features

General availability: Copy data to/from Azure Data Explorer using Azure Data Factory or Synapse Analytics

Mapping Data Flows provides scale-out data transformation in the cloud in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics. With these additional connectors, you can build ETL patterns at Spark scale in a code-free design environment without ever touching the Spark compute. Azure Integration Runtimes allow you to define the Spark environment and provide a serverless Spark compute for your data transformation pipelines.

• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Azure Data Factory
• Azure Data Explorer
• Azure Integration Runtime
• Features

General availability: Azure Data Factory managed virtual network

Azure Data Factory managed virtual network provides you with a more secure and manageable data integration solution.

• Data Factory V2
• Features

Azure Synapse Analytics Compute Optimized data flows will be retired on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Transition from Compute Optimized data flows to General Purpose data flows by 31 August 2024.

• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Retirements

General availability: Support for SQL Server in data flows using Azure Data Factory & Azure Synapse

SQL Server is now available as a data flow source sink from your on-premises and VM-based instances in ADF and Synapse Analytics.

• Azure Data Factory
• Features

Azure Data Factory announces Data Flow general availability in two new Azure regions

Azure Data Factory has released Mapping Data Flows for 2 new Azure regions: US Virgina Gov & US Arizona Gov

• Azure Data Factory
• Features

General availability: Data flows in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse now support Reserved Instances

Azure Data Factory (ADF) and Azure Synapse Analytics (Synapse) now offer discounted pricing on data flows based on 1-year and 3-year reservations.

• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Azure Data Factory
• Features

Azure Data Factory is now available in two additional regions

Azure Data Factory is now available in two new regions: China North 2 and South India

• Azure Data Factory
• Services
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Azure Data Factory data flow connectors now generally available for CDM and Delta Lake.

Azure Data Factory (ADF) has made data flow connectors for ETL data loading, transforming and landing in common data model (CDM) and Delta Lake formats.

• Azure Data Factory
• Features

Azure Data Factory adds cached lookups and enhanced zoom design to data flows

Azure Data Factory (ADF) has made it easier to view and manage large, complex ETL patterns with new zoom controls for complex graph design. ADF has also added cached lookups to data flows for more efficient and faster design patterns.

• Azure Data Factory
• Features